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A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies; designed to develope the origin of this singular people, and to promote the amelioration of their condition.
York, printed for the author by Wm. Alexander 1816. Octavo 19th century half gilt calf (a little rubbed); 266,[2 publisher's list]pp. Some light browning, most obvious on the title page, but a rather good, quite handsome copy.
¶ First edition; only edition really, leaving out modern reprints and facsimiles. Notable for being the first serious book on, and the first sympathetic defence, however misguided, of the English Gypsies. And notable for the insubstantial stories about Hoyland himself, his supposed fall from Quaker grace and dalliance with Gypsy maidens.
¶ First edition; only edition really, leaving out modern reprints and facsimiles. Notable for being the first serious book on, and the first sympathetic defence, however misguided, of the English Gypsies. And notable for the insubstantial stories about Hoyland himself, his supposed fall from Quaker grace and dalliance with Gypsy maidens.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8691
AUD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 168.75 US$ 182.99 | £UK 143.75 | JP¥ 28788]
Keywords: social sciences race government c19th anthropology ethnology gypsies gipsies racism
The Currency and the Country.
London, Longman &c 1843. Octavo disbound; iii-viii,112pp and folding table. Without half title, stitching gone but still a fresh copy.
¶ A notable salvo in the currency war at the time, in support of the 'single bank of issue' and consequently that any profit belongs to the nation. Marx called on this to demolish James Mill's "false theory of price" in his 'Elements of Political Economy' and to establish other points in Kapital. I wonder what Hubbard might have thought about this. Hubbard - later Lord Addington - did, after all, become governor of the Bank of England and a conservative politician.
¶ A notable salvo in the currency war at the time, in support of the 'single bank of issue' and consequently that any profit belongs to the nation. Marx called on this to demolish James Mill's "false theory of price" in his 'Elements of Political Economy' and to establish other points in Kapital. I wonder what Hubbard might have thought about this. Hubbard - later Lord Addington - did, after all, become governor of the Bank of England and a conservative politician.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11121
AUD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 76.75 US$ 83.18 | £UK 65.5 | JP¥ 13085]
Keywords: social sciences political economy economics c19th England finance currency
Suggestions in Floral Design.
London, Cassell [1878]. Folio modern half morocco (original decorated cloth front panel bound in at the end); 52pp and 52 chromolitho plates (including the title and end leaf). Some minor flaws: a stain in the bottom margin of the last couple of leaves of text, a couple of rumpled page edges and repairs to tissue guards; still rather good, clean and unfoxed.
¶ Hulme is mostly remembered as an art-botanist and ornamental encyclopaedist and perhaps his name has been blackened by dreary, usually incomplete, sets of 'Familiar Wild Flowers' choking the bookshops of the world. His skill as designer has been unjustly neglected and this, his most exciting book, makes that clear. The influence of his teacher and colleague Christopher Dresser is obvious in the forms and flat bright colours but that is no curse. The accompanying text is plain and helpful and the plates are beautifully printed by Dupuy of Paris.
¶ Hulme is mostly remembered as an art-botanist and ornamental encyclopaedist and perhaps his name has been blackened by dreary, usually incomplete, sets of 'Familiar Wild Flowers' choking the bookshops of the world. His skill as designer has been unjustly neglected and this, his most exciting book, makes that clear. The influence of his teacher and colleague Christopher Dresser is obvious in the forms and flat bright colours but that is no curse. The accompanying text is plain and helpful and the plates are beautifully printed by Dupuy of Paris.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7961
AUD 1100.00 [Appr.: EURO 674.5 US$ 731.97 | £UK 574.75 | JP¥ 115150]
Keywords: art design pattern colour printing c19th England chromolithography
A Complete Treatise on Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction ... illustrated by numerous examples, drawn to a large scale. Third edition ... revised and considerably enlarged.
London, Lockwood 1870. Two volumes folio half red morocco (some splodges on the cloth); mounted albumen print as frontispiece, 17 plates (some folding), illustrations in the text in volume I; colour litho as frontispiece and 98 double page or folding plates in volume II. Some spotting, a couple of minor signs of use; a rather good, handsome pair with the inscription of Australian engineer Charles A.C. Wilson who built at least one iron bridge in Victoria.
¶ Best edition of this exemplary study, with theory, practice and detailed descriptions and illustrations of all types of mid-Victorian iron bridges. Grouped by type: iron arch, plate girder, trellis and lattice girder, bow-string and - new to this edition - suspension bridges. Illustrated bridges include Brunel's Saltash Bridge (the subject of Fenton's photograph), the Taptee viaduct in India, a bridge outside Melbourne, the Franz Joseph Bridge in Prague ...
¶ Best edition of this exemplary study, with theory, practice and detailed descriptions and illustrations of all types of mid-Victorian iron bridges. Grouped by type: iron arch, plate girder, trellis and lattice girder, bow-string and - new to this edition - suspension bridges. Illustrated bridges include Brunel's Saltash Bridge (the subject of Fenton's photograph), the Taptee viaduct in India, a bridge outside Melbourne, the Franz Joseph Bridge in Prague ...
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9582
AUD 2100.00 [Appr.: EURO 1287.75 US$ 1397.39 | £UK 1097.25 | JP¥ 219832]
Keywords: civil engineering building architecture bridges iron technology trades c19th
The Crimson Cryptogram. A Detective Story.
NY, New Amsterdam 1902. Octavo publisher's cloth (spine a bit rubbed). Quite a good copy.
¶ First American edition, the London edition appeared in 1900. Is it an unlikely coincidence that young doctor Ellis happens to be discussing Moxton and his wife the moment his first ever patient rings the bell: Mrs Moxton to announce that her husband has been murdered? Coincidence schmoincidence, such things are beneath notice. Is it any more likely that characters in film and tv still - after years of mockery - always find a parking space right outside their destination?
¶ First American edition, the London edition appeared in 1900. Is it an unlikely coincidence that young doctor Ellis happens to be discussing Moxton and his wife the moment his first ever patient rings the bell: Mrs Moxton to announce that her husband has been murdered? Coincidence schmoincidence, such things are beneath notice. Is it any more likely that characters in film and tv still - after years of mockery - always find a parking space right outside their destination?
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9557
AUD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 55.25 US$ 59.89 | £UK 47.25 | JP¥ 9421]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th England Australia thrillers mystery detective crime
The Dwarf's Chamber.
London, Ward Lock [189-?]. Octavo publisher's colour illustrated glazed boards with cloth spine (this a touch faded); illustrations by Percy F.S. Spence and others. The title page - on cheaper paper - a bit browned, a bit of a lean, a little wear to corners and edges, a rather good copy.
¶ A re-issue of the original 1896 sheets with a cancel title page and part of the appealing Ward Lock 2/- Copyright Novels series. This is the copy illustrated in John Loder's survey of the 2/- series. This is sort of intriguing as an exercise in marketing. The "other stories" - ie The Dwarf's Chamber and Other Stories as it was first titled - have been dumped - from the title, not the book. Perhaps a glut of short story collections on the market. The Dwarf's Chamber is the longest by far piece in the book but there are some other useful titles in there: Dead Man's Diamonds - too many diamonds in the thriller market ... Tale of the Turquoise Skull - too obvious a short story ... the Green-Eyed God and the Stockbroker - again too obvious as is the Ivory Leg and the Twenty-Four Diamonds - and there's diamonds again.
¶ A re-issue of the original 1896 sheets with a cancel title page and part of the appealing Ward Lock 2/- Copyright Novels series. This is the copy illustrated in John Loder's survey of the 2/- series. This is sort of intriguing as an exercise in marketing. The "other stories" - ie The Dwarf's Chamber and Other Stories as it was first titled - have been dumped - from the title, not the book. Perhaps a glut of short story collections on the market. The Dwarf's Chamber is the longest by far piece in the book but there are some other useful titles in there: Dead Man's Diamonds - too many diamonds in the thriller market ... Tale of the Turquoise Skull - too obvious a short story ... the Green-Eyed God and the Stockbroker - again too obvious as is the Ivory Leg and the Twenty-Four Diamonds - and there's diamonds again.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10283
AUD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 113.5 US$ 123.1 | £UK 96.75 | JP¥ 19366]
Keywords: literature fiction c19th thrillers England Australia
The Rainbow Feather.
NY, Dillingham 1898. Octavo publisher's decorated cloth. A very good copy. There is a small triangular bump in the cloth on the front cover which puzzled me until I realised it was a patch applied to the inside of the cloth before binding - they weren't going to waste a foot of cloth because of a small flaw in the material.
¶ First American edition contemporaneous with the London edition. An incredibly convoluted, even for Hume, murder mystery which begins with a cackling gipsy foretelling murder for a gorgeous but unpleasant young woman and misery for her equally gorgeous and unpleasant suitor. There is of course a twist. "And the remarkable result is that out of the thirteen active personages in 'The Rainbow Feather' ten are proved to have been present at the murder. It is pressing the credulous reader rather far, this transforming a quiet scene of assassination into a large social function." (Munsey's Magazine).
¶ First American edition contemporaneous with the London edition. An incredibly convoluted, even for Hume, murder mystery which begins with a cackling gipsy foretelling murder for a gorgeous but unpleasant young woman and misery for her equally gorgeous and unpleasant suitor. There is of course a twist. "And the remarkable result is that out of the thirteen active personages in 'The Rainbow Feather' ten are proved to have been present at the murder. It is pressing the credulous reader rather far, this transforming a quiet scene of assassination into a large social function." (Munsey's Magazine).
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8631
AUD 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 101.25 US$ 109.8 | £UK 86.25 | JP¥ 17273]
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers mystery detective c19th England
Researches on Light in its Chemical Relations; embracing a consideration of all the photographic processes.
London, Longman &c, 1854. Octavo publisher's blindstamped cloth (a touch faded); xx,396pp, folding frontispiece with some hand colouring, some diagrams through the text. Title a little browned by a note (see below); a very good copy.
¶ Second edition, largely rewritten to encompass the progress made in photography since the original edition, ten years earlier - and to claim his proper place as an original experimenter. Hunt's preface includes a defence against the label of 'compilation' visited on the first edition - his experiments began before the publication of the processes of Daguerre or Fox Talbot and have continued "at no small cost, and with a large expenditure of thought". The loosely inserted note alluded to is to William Benson from a Furnivall (probably not Frederick James) offering him the long term loan of this book - though it probably wouldn't be needed for his forthcoming 'excellent' book on colour. This is probably Benson's Principles of the Science of Colour; 1868.
¶ Second edition, largely rewritten to encompass the progress made in photography since the original edition, ten years earlier - and to claim his proper place as an original experimenter. Hunt's preface includes a defence against the label of 'compilation' visited on the first edition - his experiments began before the publication of the processes of Daguerre or Fox Talbot and have continued "at no small cost, and with a large expenditure of thought". The loosely inserted note alluded to is to William Benson from a Furnivall (probably not Frederick James) offering him the long term loan of this book - though it probably wouldn't be needed for his forthcoming 'excellent' book on colour. This is probably Benson's Principles of the Science of Colour; 1868.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 7828
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 460 US$ 499.07 | £UK 392 | JP¥ 78512]
Keywords: science light photography chemistry c19th technology colour
![HUNTER, A. [Alexander], Georgical Essays.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Hunter8601.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Georgical Essays.
York, printed by Wilson and Spence &c 1803. Four volumes octavo contemporary dark green half calf; nine folding plates and a folding table. Title (and title only) in volume II very spotted - a problem I've seen reported in other copies - as are a couple of gatherings in volume III; still a fresh and elegant set.
¶ Now here's an object lesson in the value of first hand information. Hunter is quite clear in his preface: 'About the year 1770, a few gentlemen formed themselves into a society at York [with] the title of the York Agricultural Society ... and [they] agreed that such papers as were thought to possess distinguished merit, should be published in a work bearing the title of Georgical Essays. In about twelve months ... the first volume made its appearance [but] ... the publication was discontinued, so that only one volume exists.' A slender work titled Georgical Essays appeared in 1769 - not so far off - but then it was reworked and four separate volumes (all still slender it must be said) were issued from 1770 to 1772. Then they were gathered into a single volume in 1777 with an additional essay, which was also issued separately. For factual detail never believe the horse's mouth. Hunter is equally sure here at the end of volume IV that the work was finished but he just couldn't help himself, adding two more volumes the following year. I suspect that only infirmity (he was by then 75 and died in 1809) kept him from continuing ad infinitum. Hunter wrote a lot but not all of this, and many familiar names appear (Linnaeus being one). It is actually, as Hunter intended, in "one focus, all that is widely diffused through numberless volumes of Agricultural information". The title may be classical and gentlemenly but the articles within show no reluctance to get down into the muck and manure.
¶ Now here's an object lesson in the value of first hand information. Hunter is quite clear in his preface: 'About the year 1770, a few gentlemen formed themselves into a society at York [with] the title of the York Agricultural Society ... and [they] agreed that such papers as were thought to possess distinguished merit, should be published in a work bearing the title of Georgical Essays. In about twelve months ... the first volume made its appearance [but] ... the publication was discontinued, so that only one volume exists.' A slender work titled Georgical Essays appeared in 1769 - not so far off - but then it was reworked and four separate volumes (all still slender it must be said) were issued from 1770 to 1772. Then they were gathered into a single volume in 1777 with an additional essay, which was also issued separately. For factual detail never believe the horse's mouth. Hunter is equally sure here at the end of volume IV that the work was finished but he just couldn't help himself, adding two more volumes the following year. I suspect that only infirmity (he was by then 75 and died in 1809) kept him from continuing ad infinitum. Hunter wrote a lot but not all of this, and many familiar names appear (Linnaeus being one). It is actually, as Hunter intended, in "one focus, all that is widely diffused through numberless volumes of Agricultural information". The title may be classical and gentlemenly but the articles within show no reluctance to get down into the muck and manure.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 8601
AUD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 199.5 US$ 216.26 | £UK 170 | JP¥ 34022]
Keywords: science technology agriculture farming botany trades c18th c19th England economics food
![Sawai Ichisaburo., [Sugoroku - Dai Toa Kyoeiken Meguri].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Sawai10658.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Sugoroku - Dai Toa Kyoeiken Meguri].
Tokyo, Ie no Hikari 1944 (Showa 19). Colour broadside 38x53cm. Natural browning of the paper, a few pinholes, rather good.
¶ This tour of the Great East Asia Mutual Prosperity Zone was the new year gift from the magazine Ie no Hikari. Despite the obvious bite into production quality by the end of 1943 and the disappearance of Japanese possessions further east than the western side of Papua New Guinea we, or rather children, could see that Japan was still a much loved friend throughout Asia. Worldcat finds two copies, one in Australia and one in Singapore, but not the Harvard Yenching copy.
¶ This tour of the Great East Asia Mutual Prosperity Zone was the new year gift from the magazine Ie no Hikari. Despite the obvious bite into production quality by the end of 1943 and the disappearance of Japanese possessions further east than the western side of Papua New Guinea we, or rather children, could see that Japan was still a much loved friend throughout Asia. Worldcat finds two copies, one in Australia and one in Singapore, but not the Harvard Yenching copy.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10658
AUD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 245.5 US$ 266.17 | £UK 209 | JP¥ 41873]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art progress Asia maps military
[Tokyo Meisho no Uchi Ashumabashi ...
Tokyo 1888 (Meiji 21). Colour woodcut 36x24cm. A couple of tiny holes, a nice bright copy.
¶ Every artist and publisher in Tokyo had a go at the newly opened Azumabashi - the pioneer iron bridge opened in December 1887. Kobayashi produced more than one. Here the focus is not the bridge but the bustle of people; it's clear that near everyone in Tokyo wanted to look, to cross it.
¶ Every artist and publisher in Tokyo had a go at the newly opened Azumabashi - the pioneer iron bridge opened in December 1887. Kobayashi produced more than one. Here the focus is not the bridge but the bustle of people; it's clear that near everyone in Tokyo wanted to look, to cross it.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10349
AUD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 107.5 US$ 116.45 | £UK 91.5 | JP¥ 18319]
Keywords: graphic art Japan c19th woodcut Tokyo progress bridges reform meiji
![Moga illustrations., [Iede Musume no Nu-chan].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_NuChan11082.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Iede Musume no Nu-chan].
n.p. c1930? Four ink and wash drawings on light card from about 10x22cm to 22x18cm. The first titled in pencil (Iede Musume no Nu-chan dai 5 kai translates as Runaway Daughter Nu-chan part 5). One to three are numbered in pencil; number three includes some embossing.
¶ Four engaging and stylish small drawings which I take to be magazine illustrations for chapter five of a jazz age story all too familiar - the corruption and downfall of an innocent young woman. All very much ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) fashion of the late Taisho and early Showa period. The story of Nu-chan and where it might have appeared remains a mystery to me but I really want to see it all. Could it be there was a happy ending? Moga = modern girl.
¶ Four engaging and stylish small drawings which I take to be magazine illustrations for chapter five of a jazz age story all too familiar - the corruption and downfall of an innocent young woman. All very much ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) fashion of the late Taisho and early Showa period. The story of Nu-chan and where it might have appeared remains a mystery to me but I really want to see it all. Could it be there was a happy ending? Moga = modern girl.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 11082
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.75 US$ 133.09 | £UK 104.5 | JP¥ 20936]
Keywords: graphic art illustration c20th Japan modernism women feminism sex ero-guro-nansensu moga
![Chinese Immigration., Petition. Arrest of Chinese Immigration. Laid upon the council table by the Honorable W.H.F. Mitchell ... 15th July, 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 7th August 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 7th August 1857. [with] Petition. Influx of Chinese ... 12th August 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 2nd October 1857. [with] Report of the Select Committee ... on the subject of Chinese Immigration, together with proceedings of the committee and minutes of evidence.](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_ChineseImmigration9296.jpg "Click to enlarge")
Petition. Arrest of Chinese Immigration. Laid upon the council table by the Honorable W.H.F. Mitchell ... 15th July, 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 7th August 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 7th August 1857. [with] Petition. Influx of Chinese ... 12th August 1857. [with] Influx of the Chinese. Petition ... 2nd October 1857. [with] Report of the Select Committee ... on the subject of Chinese Immigration, together with proceedings of the committee and minutes of evidence.
Melbourne, Govt Printer 1857. Six papers foolscap, disbound; the petitions one page each, the report viii,28pp.
¶ The first petition, from the Local Court of Castlemaine, is the more verbose about the evils and dangers of the Chinese inundation but unspecific about remedies, calling only for more cogent legislation. The second, also from the Local Court of Castlemaine brings a memorial unanimously approved by "large and influential meetings". The third is from members of the Local Court of Fryer's Creek. The fourth, from the inhabitants of Geelong, is brief and firm, calling for a poll-tax and the outlawing, with severe penalties, of the Chinese passenger trade and the last is from some 1600 gold miners and residents of Campbell's Creek calling on the government to rid them of these Pagan idolaters. The committee, chaired by Pascoe Fawkner, examined a proposed bill to regulate the Chinese population and a number of witnesses, including a couple of detectives, the Chinese Protector at Sandhurst who was either the most ignorant or most honest of the witnesses, William Young, the missionary who produced a report on the Chinese of Victoria a decade later, and local merchant Kong Meng who spoke of some atrocious behavior by Europeans on the goldfields. The act, printed at the end, is recommended with a couple of amendments and consists of a hefty poll tax and punitive licensing system.
¶ The first petition, from the Local Court of Castlemaine, is the more verbose about the evils and dangers of the Chinese inundation but unspecific about remedies, calling only for more cogent legislation. The second, also from the Local Court of Castlemaine brings a memorial unanimously approved by "large and influential meetings". The third is from members of the Local Court of Fryer's Creek. The fourth, from the inhabitants of Geelong, is brief and firm, calling for a poll-tax and the outlawing, with severe penalties, of the Chinese passenger trade and the last is from some 1600 gold miners and residents of Campbell's Creek calling on the government to rid them of these Pagan idolaters. The committee, chaired by Pascoe Fawkner, examined a proposed bill to regulate the Chinese population and a number of witnesses, including a couple of detectives, the Chinese Protector at Sandhurst who was either the most ignorant or most honest of the witnesses, William Young, the missionary who produced a report on the Chinese of Victoria a decade later, and local merchant Kong Meng who spoke of some atrocious behavior by Europeans on the goldfields. The act, printed at the end, is recommended with a couple of amendments and consists of a hefty poll tax and punitive licensing system.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 9296
AUD 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 460 US$ 499.07 | £UK 392 | JP¥ 78512]
Keywords: history Chinese immigration emigration political economy government race Australia China c19th yellow peril law Asia gold racism
The Crest of the Continent a record of a summer's ramble in the rocky mountains and beyond.
Chicago, Donnelley & Sons 1885. Octavo publisher's gilt cloth; 344pp, numerous illustrations. The odd spot but quite a good copy.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 6788
AUD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.75 US$ 33.27 | £UK 26.25 | JP¥ 5234]
Keywords: travel c19th America
![Takeo Inoue., [Shojo Kokkei Kaimono Sugoroku].](https://www.antiqbook.com/images/AB_images/n/ney_Takeo10503.jpg "Click to enlarge")
[Shojo Kokkei Kaimono Sugoroku].
Tokyo, Shojo Sekai 1925 (Taisho 14). Colour broadside 54x79cm. Signs of use with a couple of small holes in folds and a neat inscription on the back. Not bad.
¶ Who said that a girl's life could be dull? Here are just some of the perils and joys of shopping. This was the new year gift from the magazine Shojo Sekai - Girl's World.
¶ Who said that a girl's life could be dull? Here are just some of the perils and joys of shopping. This was the new year gift from the magazine Shojo Sekai - Girl's World.
Richard Neylon, BooksellerProfessional sellerBook number: 10503
AUD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 184 US$ 199.63 | £UK 156.75 | JP¥ 31405]
Keywords: paper games pastimes illustration cartoons manga sugoroku c20th Japan modernism graphic art progress shopping women feminism reform
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